Bush and almost everyone in Congress is hopelessly pro-Israel, but in regards to Russia, Bush has acted like an arrogant, snot-nose frat boy. These morons want another cold war. Right now their phony "war on terror" is being used to erase the Bill of Rights.

It's like Orwell's novel, "1984". A police state is created because of a perpetual state of war.

Has anybody else rec'd a Hucksterbee email ?? I have never been to the Hucksterbee site, I just want to know how they got my email address.

I don't even know if they have a site.

I did visit the John McCain site for some weird reason, and I have been getting a plead email from them almost everyday..including that wierd one where they are selling a 10 jacket from China for a 200 buck donation.

but how in the heck does the baptist minister get off on spamming people...

I've seen a few posts recommending suggesting that Ron Paul launch a nationwide advertising campaign. If any of you have a few extra million to donate maybe that would be possible. But as it is, he just launched a two week radio campaign that blankets all of 4 states. The price?

$400,000

And that doesn't even count the costs of production for the advertisements. Nearly half a million of the 5 million he received last quarter. They are just now starting to spend that money, but it is not enough to sufficiently saturate the national media landscape.

They're doing all they can with the funds they have......

No, sadly they aren't. They tell people they are, but the article below goes into detail about what they could be doing.

One successful presidential candidate made the remark that you should always use the most modern mass-advertising available. That would still be TV advertising. Not that many open-minded people listen to radio nowadays. A lot of people listen to nothing but pre-recorded music when they're driving. The people who do listen to talk radio are hopelessly brain-washed ditto-head zombies, who will be supporting Isra-hell and the Iraq War right up until the casualty counter ticks over to 50,000.

Spending $400,000 on RADIO ads in just four SMALL states is targeting a small fraction of a small population. Ron Paul should fire the person who came up with the idea of doing this.

I know these are the first states in the primary, but you can win the first couple states and still lose the primary. Ron Paul is supposed to be running a national campaign.

Ron Paul should have run national ads with the first million he raised.

Radio ads in four SMALL states is likely to produce so little in revenue that Paul may get the (mistaken) idea that advertising isn't producing much revenue in return.

Ron Paul NEEDS to make some effort to reach out nation-wide to grow his base. Every week he delays is time wasted that he can't make up.

It seems like the Ron Paul Campaign has a pat response to anyone who suggests that they run nation-wide ads now. They just keep saying “It’s too expensive.” If you leave a message for the campaign finance manager, you don’t get a call back.

This is a bizarre response. If you’re running in a nation-wide political race and you can’t afford national advertising, then you might as well give up.

The truth is that Ron Paul is running his campaign much like Giuliani or Romney, saving up money for a last minute push. Unfortunately, Ron Paul is NOT going to win if he runs his campaign like everyone else.

Ron Paul is unique and has a huge appeal. While it’s true other candidates have received donations which are less than what they’ve spent on ads; Ron Paul is the only candidate who is likely to receive MORE back in contributions relative to what he spends on ads. The key point is to run nation-wide ads EARLY while it will still do some good. Ron Paul also needs to raise his percentage support to something respectable –like 15 percent– as soon as possible.

The Ron Paul campaign is in serious trouble right now. The polls claim that he is only at “one to three percent.” Even if you assume this number is under-reporting things by two or three times, Ron Paul is still in the single digits. This is unacceptable. Something has to be done.

Winning in New Hampshire is pointless if you’re unknown to the rest of the nation. Pat Buchanan won in New Hampshire and went on to lose the primary to Bob Dole. The current tactic of spending money only on a few early primaries is short-sighted and a victory will be seen as a “fluke” not some miracle that will overcome national poll ratings of three percent.

Giuliani and McCain have both fired campaign officials who were not performing. If either of them had been stuck at three percent in the polls, you can bet they would have changed tactics or fired their campaign manager in a heart beat. The Ron Paul campaign just missed its mid-October fund-raising goal by over 100%. Something has to change.

In advertising, you have to spend money to make money. Whether it’s a new consumer product or a presidential candidate, you have to have confidence that when people hear about the product, they’ll want it.

One Internet article that discusses commercial advertising states that nation-wide commercial time can be bought for $100,000 for a 30 second block. So one million dollars could buy ten 30-second commercial ads or 30 ten-second commercials.

A ten second commercial should not be that hard to make. Many of Paul’s supporters are very Internet and computer savvy. Paul could even hold a contest to see which supporter can make the best ten-second commercial. There are two big issues in the 2008 election: the Iraq War and illegal immigration. It only takes ten seconds to say:

“I’m Ron Paul. If elected president, I will pull our troops out of Iraq as soon as possible, and I will enforce immigration laws and never approve an amnesty.”

While this narration is going on, a video of cheering crowds waving Ron Paul signs could be played. To maximize the effect of the commercial, the following lines could appear in red letters at the bottom of the screen (scrolling three lines at a time as in the illustration above):

Thankfully, political advertising has a discounted rate. As an example, consider the MoveOn.org ad in the New York times. This ad was placed at 38% the normal advertising rate. This means Ron Paul could run 2.5 times as many ads if the same discount applied. So instead of 30 ten second commercials, Ron Paul could run 75 ten second commercials on nationally-broadcast TV shows.

Ron Paul should spend one million on nation-wide ads now. Ron Paul needs to rally people all across America to join his campaign. So far, Paul has ignored most of America. The largest state in the union, California has yet to see a Ron Paul ad. All the wealthy California residents, who are strongly opposed to the Iraq War, have not been “tapped” for their tremendous fund-raising potential.

Ron Paul’s campaign is almost 100 percent Internet so far, which is why he is stuck at three percent. Almost nobody watches the Republican debates. Paul can’t rely on the debates getting him anymore than three percent support. He NEEDS to go MAINSTREAM NOW!!!! Running 75 commercials on 25 nationally syndicated shows would be a good first step.

I strongly suggest that everyone reading this article, who feels the Ron Paul campaign is making a HUGE mistake not running national ads now, should e-mail the Ron Paul campaign at:

Spending $400,000 on RADIO ads in just four SMALL states is targeting a small fraction of a small population. Ron Paul should fire the person who came up with the idea of doing this.

There is no guarantee that spending one million on nation wide ads will help. People may love his message but end up just only donating their vote. This will definitely hurt when its time to advertise for the early primary states as he is already short on cash.

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the following lines could appear in red letters at the bottom of the screen (scrolling three lines at a time as in the illustration above):

I dont think this is a good strategy. People dont like when politicians attack eachother. Make no mistake about it: Guilani, Thompson, McCain and Romney will attack eachother and this information will get out. Ron Paul should just present his message while these guys are busy fighting. PLus its forced. If Ron Paul were to do this he says "Dont vote for Rudy, vote for me." Whereas if he just presents his message he is not stressing people to vote for him. They will be more inclined to go to him on their own.

There is no guarantee that spending one million on nation wide ads will help. People may love his message but end up just only donating their vote. This will definitely hurt when its time to advertise for the early primary states as he is already short on cash.

Advertising nationally is a gamble.

But Ron Paul was able to raise five million dollars last quarter with only "one to two percent" of the population.

About 72 percent of Americans want US troops out of Iraq. About 85 percent of Americans want serious border enforcement. These are the two biggest issues of the campaign. Ron Paul needs to bypass the mainstream news media and go directly to the people. If people still want to vote for Frudy McRomneyson, then there's no helping stupid.

If anyone has a huge potential and would stand to profit enormously from nation-wide advertising, it would be Ron Paul.

I dont think this is a good strategy. People dont like when politicians attack each other. Make no mistake about it: Guilani, Thompson, McCain and Romney will attack each other and this information will get out. Ron Paul should just present his message while these guys are busy fighting. PLus its forced. If Ron Paul were to do this he says "Dont vote for Rudy, vote for me." Whereas if he just presents his message he is not stressing people to vote for him. They will be more inclined to go to him on their own.

I know that's an important point --not to appear like you're attacking people. (Geesh, we have White people getting killed by illegal aliens every day and people who want to deport the illegals have to worry about not looking "rude." Oh well, that's America.)

But is it really "attacking" people to state their positions on an issue?

It would be better to get exact quotes from each of Paul's serious opponents if brief quotes can be found. That way you're not "attacking" them. You're just quoting them.

People dont like when politicians attack eachother. Make no mistake about it: Guilani, Thompson, McCain and Romney will attack eachother and this information will get out. Ron Paul should just present his message while these guys are busy fighting.

I agree wholeheartedly..

My wife has been waiting to hear SOMEBODY come through like Reagan did with his 'morning in America'..

When these guys get through exposing each other's weakness' , Ron Paul will still be saying what he has all along, It is almost a game of keeping one's mouth SHUT at this point (not that I am one to give advise along those lines..) and when the voter's are thoroughly
fed up with what they have heard, all he will have to do is present himself as who he is.

By the way, he doesn't seem to have the same 'fear' of Hillary as do the rest of the so-called top tier three or four..I would guess that's because he doesn't have skeltons in his closet.

Giuliani was criticized for embracing illegal immigrants. Giuliani continued a policy of preventing city employees from contacting the Immigration and Naturalization Service about immigration violations, on the grounds that illegal aliens should be able to take actions such as to send their children to school or report crime and violations without fear of deportation.

During his mayoralty, gays and lesbians in New York received domestic-partnership rights. Giuliani induced the city's Democratic-controlled New York City Council, which had avoided the issue for years, to then pass legislation providing broad protection for same-sex partners. In 1998, he codified local law by granting all city employees equal benefits for their domestic partners.

Has anybody else rec'd a Hucksterbee email ?? I have never been to the Hucksterbee site, I just want to know how they got my email address.

No, but I have noticed something else since I started working for this campaign. Almost every single week I receive a piece of mail from some Jewish-affiliated group, begging and pleading for poor, poor Israel, who is under attack and needs my money!! Is this a coincidence??

This makes me so angry I usually start screaming. They have all KINDS of freaking money, they have like 400 nuclear warheads, they've received almost 2 TRILLION dollars from the U.S. in the last 30 years, they own all the damned banks and control the Federal Reserve AND their destroying whatever culture we have left - but they need MY money as I drown in medical bills!

You want to know how cheap they are? They ask for my money, and don't even have the decency to pay for the postage on the return envelope! I've been laying out the stamp to return this stuff to them with a short note: KEEP YOUR ZIONIST PROPAGANDA OUT OF MY MAILBOX! NO MORE WAR FOR ISRAEL! NO MORE MONEY FOR ISRAEL! RON PAUL FOR PRESIDENT IN 2008!